Wednesday reader's view: Right is right

Published 8:45 am, Wednesday, February 17, 2016

George Orwell once said, “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”

Are we there? If society today allows wrong to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, evil doesn’t become good just because it’s accepted by a majority. The fact is, right is right even if everyone is against it and wrong is wrong even if everyone is for it. This is one thing I have learned. Immorality must be judged.

Let God be true and every man a liar! Jesus of Nazareth said, “Suppose ye that I come to bring peace on earth? I tell you nay, but rather division.” This is a truth, that truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth; the devil hates truth, for that is why Jesus called him the “father of lies.”

Ken Huber sent a letter to the Tawas city paper. This is his letter:

“Has America become the land of the special interests and home of the double standard?

Let’s see: if we lie to Congress, it’s a felony and if the Congress lies to us, it’s just politics; the government ... rehabilitates criminals and they do almost nothing for the victims; in public schools you can teach that homosexuality is OK, but you better not use the word ‘God’ in the process; you can kill an unborn child, but it’s wrong to execute a mass murderer; we don’t burn books in America, we now rewrite them; we got rid of the communist and socialist threat by renaming them progressives; we are unable to close our border with Mexico, but have no problem protecting the 38th parallel in Korea; if you protest against President Obama’s policies, you’re a terrorist, but if you burned an American flag or George Bush in effigy it was your First Amendment right.

You can have pornography on TV or the Internet, but you better not put a nativity scene in a public park during Christmas; we have eliminated all criminals in America, they are now called sick people; we can use a human fetus for medical research, but it’s wrong to use an animal.

We take money from those who work hard and give it to those who don’t want to work; we all support the Constitution, but only when it supports our political ideology; we still have freedom of speech, but only if we are being politically correct; parenting has been replaced by Ritalin and video games.”